gregladen | August 8, 2009I wish I coulda been there ... by all accounts it sounds like the Creozerg visit to the Creation Museum went well. A couple of kids were thrown out because they said things or whatever, which is good because it shows that the whole point of the creation museum is to express, secure, and protect a particular point of view and to supress others. For your entertainment, I've collected a handful of links from the event. Please visit these links, and if you are a social neworking kinda person, digg-em-up or stumbleuponthem or whatever. It would be very nice, would it not, if over the next few…
gregladen | August 8, 2009On this day in 1974. It was Richard Nixon. I remember it like it was yesterday.
gregladen | August 7, 2009The Carnival of Evolutoin 14 is at Quintessence of Dust.
Trees, Plants and More has the Festival of the Trees #38
Carnival of the Blue #27: The Vacation Edition is at Oh, for the love of science.
gregladen | August 7, 2009Dear MSNBC Viewer Services,
...
I normally watch MSNBC. I'm a writer and blogger, so I often have MSNBC on for a few hours during the day as I write, so I can pick up on the latest news. I love Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, and I often watch Hardball.
But, I've got to tell you this: Every time one of those "free credit report dot com" ads comes on, I turn you off. Click. MSNBC goes off for at least an hour or so, often until evening or maybe for the entire day. I think I don't often notice the ads if I'm in the other room or something, but man, they are very very obnoxious ads and…
gregladen | August 7, 2009There is a lot of discussion on the Anti-Health Teabagging Town Hall Crashing.
The Field Negro tells is "Its working!"
Just Orb asks us to Try to Remember
Related:
Evolving in Kansas: U.S. Not Tops in Health Care, Only Cost
The Lay Scientist is Drowning in Alphabet Soup: The Wider Battle for Health Regulation
Is "Southerner" GOP-Codespeak for Fundie?
gregladen | August 7, 2009I have been consumed with frustration in recent days. The principal cause of this has been industrial action by an assortment of trolls who think that holding strikes for pay in a recession, thus holding commuters to ransom, is a good way to improve public relations. ... We commuters are so powerless...
Cromercrox writes...
gregladen | August 7, 2009I'd like to take a moment to address some of your remarks about how the tactics of "New Atheists" are just too uncivil....
Read the rest at Crowded Head, Cozy Bed
gregladen | August 7, 2009The CreoZerg (and I'm not entirely sure what a Creo-Zerg is) is underway. PZ Myers and the atheists are moving in to the creation museum. Details here. Twittering here.
gregladen | August 7, 2009OK, there is this blogger named Steve. Steve is of some interest, so let's see who he is. This is what Steve says this about himself in the about section of his own blog:
Though I grew up in Garland, I was born in Irving. And my dad's biggest bragging point about me is that you could see Texas Stadium from the window in the room where I was born. So, as you can see, I never had a chance. I love the Dallas Cowboys more than most of my family members and I'm here to keep haters on the straight and narrow. I'm also the resident hippie-hater. Don't bring your liberal crap in here, because it…
gregladen | August 6, 2009Have you noticed that lisp programmers have taken over the formatting of the dummy-notes on MSNBC?
First, what are dummy notes. Dummy notes are those phrases that show up near the bottom of the screen that summarize, in a word or two, what the person on the screen just said. What I've noticed is that the dummy notes are now preceded with a single quote. So, somewhere there is a list of dummy notes, with a producer or someone constantly adding to the bottom of the list, and some other producer or somebody, or a piece of software, selecting items off the top of the list and putting that item…
gregladen | August 6, 2009Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael Pritchard's Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe.
For more information about the world water problem, visit Digital Rabbit.
gregladen | August 6, 2009So, I have this friend who lives in the Midwest (nearest large city of consequence is Chicago1), who shall remain nameless (well, she has a name and all but I'm not telling you what it is) who brought up an interesting, not unusual, and sad dilemma.
She has just moved into a new living situation, and has several roommates none of whom she knows very well. During a conversation not long after she moved in, one of the roommates made a god reference during a conversation. This was a comment that clearly indicated that this person is religious, probably Christian. It was also one of those…
gregladen | August 6, 2009On this day in 1945 ...
The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
President Harry S Truman, announcing the news from the cruiser, USS Augusta, in the mid-Atlantic, said the device was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to date.
An accurate assessment of the damage caused has so far been impossible due to a huge cloud of impenetrable dust covering the target. Hiroshima is one of the chief supply depots for the Japanese army.
The bomb was dropped from an American B-29 Superfortress, known as Enola Gay, at…
gregladen | August 5, 2009
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gregladen | August 5, 2009Ginny Barbour, Part 5: Open Access, Achievements and Looking Forward from PLoS on Vimeo.
Hat Tip: ABATC